Unironically this is one of the most enjoyable channels I watch. Not my favorite, but any time I’m bored and see a video by you I haven’t watched I’m always like “well this will probbaly be good and definitely be great background noise”
The NFL doesn't need any more franchises. or more games. They just need more eyeballs. Build some mini "stadiiums", flush with Gigantic screens and surround sound, in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Send some practice players to the Asian countries so they can see the game up-close, and the league will literally have a billion new fans in about 10 years. Make the stadiums something for the middle and upper middle and the wealthy, then beam games to rest on satellites. Indonesians are absolutely fanatical about local soccer teams. They would go insane over football, especially if the League established some brother teams in Indonesia. Easy money for everyone and the players could have their salaries guaranteed.
If there's any here smarter or more knowledgeable that could explain how the growth of football in America Samoa, and Australia happened? If you can replicate this I think you could gain more international fans. Just a tidbit of a thought.
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As a British American Football fan and player. You did a great job explaining the growth of the NFL abroad however you failed to mention there initiative in Europe for creating a High school team called the NFL Academy who have gained 15+ players, NCAA D1 scholarships over just a 3 year existence, and with more scholarships coming day by day as college coaches start to find out about us (NFL Academy). Not to mention the players we have sent to colleges in Canada and Mexico as well as players who have gone on to play in professional leagues across Europe, which brings me onto my next point. You also didn’t mention the big leagues in Europe who are doing a great job in growing the game and therefore the NFL internationally, the two big leagues are called the German Football League (GFL) and the European League of Football (ELF), The GFL has been around for years, growing to have a huge loyal fan base in Germany, making American football one of there top sports, behind Soccer ⚽️. The ELF is a brand new league, in its second season now, and is a league which has teams from all over Europe and is expanding in size week by week, I recommended you look into both of these leagues as it really does show how the game of football is growing internationally in Europe. Finally you can also look at the grass root teams in all countries for football, such as BAFA in the UK, which isn’t the best of all leagues but it gets 100s if not 1000s of british kids into the game every year, many of which have gone on to play at the NFL academy or other high school teams in the UK such as Filton Pride, and then gone on to play in the US across many levels. High school football seems to be the answer to growing the sport internationally and getting more international players into the league, the top high school (u19)teams in Europe include The NFL Academy, Düsseldorf Panthers, RIG Academy, Filton Pride and many others, which i recommend you look into as they have sent players to top schools in the US and have developed players who are playing in All-American Games. Another person who is doing bits for the games growth, not just in Europe but internationally is Brandon Collier of PPI Recruits, his company is from Germany and focuses on taking the top high school talent from across the globe to the US and competing in camps in order to gain scholarships, he has gotten 100s of kids D1 scholarships from Europe, Australia and most recently Africa over around a 5 year span. To show his power and reach, it is important we highlight one kid called Momo Cissokho, from Senegal, without playing a snap of football in his life or ever even wearing a set of pads and helmet, Brandon has gotten him a Scholarship from The University of Oregon, have i mentioned he hasn’t even ever stepped foot in The US, but a football powerhouse has offered him a scholarship, this is crazy and shows the reach and trust US colleges have in Brandon and his players. Wether it’s growing the game at the high school level or professional level, Europe seems to be doing a great job at it as of recent, and i just wanted to highlight this as you failed to mention it, however great video as always mate, good watch.
I'm an Australian Vikings supporter. For most of my life, the only American sport I cared about was basketball. I had no interest NFL. That all changed after watching some full NFL games during 2018, I picked up a mild interest in the sport. I watched more and more games over the years, became more and more into the sport. Something about it is so interesting to me. I do hope it can grow more, the only person I can talk to about the NFL is my dad, and he's a Bears supporter!
It’s such a unique sport. Maybe not the best, but it’s literally like 2 different armies marching down field. It’s so orderly yet so chaotic that it feels like no other sport in the world.
Same here! I hopped in a fantasy league start of last season since I already do NBA and AFL fantasy, drafted whatever names I already knew, and watched games just to see how my players were doing. Next thing you know, every Monday I’m watching games all day while working from home. Should’ve got into it earlier, it’s fantastic watching NFL during the AFL offseason. Decided to go for the Bills because my fantasy QB was Josh Allen and I already go for the Knicks, so might as well keep it in the same state. Lots of my mates are getting into it these days as well. It’ll never be a dominant sport down here, but 10 years ago you would’ve got laughed out of a room for suggesting people should watch NFL, Kayo being so accessible has made things come a long way
Australian giants fan here, getting involved in the online community kept me interested, and I love reading up on what's new with the Giants and the league.
There’s actually a new European league now which features some Teams from the NFL Europe like Berlin Thunder, Hamburg Sea Devils and Frankfurt Galaxy. We even have an ex NFL Headcoach (Jim Tomsula), who coaches Rhein Fire. I think that plays into growing the game especially here in Germany but also other European countries like Poland and Spain (they also have teams). The league has just started its second season and already experienced growth with more teams joining and attendance as well as tv audience increasing
I'm 22 and live in Brazil, I have been watching the NFL for about 6 years now and I can personally say it was grown A LOT around here, I think Brazil is in the top 3 of American Football fans outside of the US and now some national leagues are starting to slowly develop. With games now being held in Germany, I think Brazil could very well be the next in line for an international game, would be a dream come true to watch a NFL game in person
The NFL does a piss poor job at player development in general. European football clubs (whether big or small) have their own academies where kids (both local and international) can develop into first team stars. The only way to internationalize the NFL would be to start making their own academies. But the NCAA does this for free and the owners wouldn't want to actually pony up the money to build their own developmental league. You would have to start training these kids when they're 13 - 15 years old and most of them wouldn't make it to the pros.
@@kman9884 yes they are competitors. But the CFL acts as the de facto minor league, while college would be the developmental league. I can name 6 players off the rip that were top prospects or players last season that are now on an NFL team this summer and the only team I follow are the Bombers.
It should be a European division. Let teams go there for a tour of games and have that division come to the US for a tour of games. That would make the travel less impactful and give the European market home teams that play American teams.
@@bobartbones7957There definitely is. There are 250+ college prospects coming out a year, it'll impact the play for about 2 years, but it'll all even out after a while. And if there's nfl teams in europe/africa, then local colleges will be WAY more inclined to consider adding a football program
The European League of Football (ELF) is a new interesting try to implement football in Europe. This league could grow a lot of possible pathway players and spread interest in the sport around Europe. The NFL should look for cooperation with the ELF. A naturally grown league with homegrown players you can identify with is probably the most promissing way of implementing the sport in Europe, even though it is hard to compete with other sports that are older and have more history than the US itself. You should look into that
A lot of people have been mentioning the ELF and the GFL, but I haven't seen many people mentioning the X-league, a 51 year old Japanese Gridiron Football league. Their website claims that their level of play is comparable to that of the CFL (I'm not sure if that's true or not). They limit teams to 4 foreign-born players, with no more than 2 on the field at once, so it's almost entirely compromised of homegrown talent. There's a few Americans in the X-League. In 2020, former UC Davis QB Jimmy Laughrea led the Obic Seagulls to a Championship, and in 2021 former Wake Forest LB Jaboree Williams was the X1 Super (top division in the x-league) MVP.
I’ve never understood why the pro bowl is never played in London. It’s perfect. There are many different fans of many different teams in Europe so getting a chance to bring the best of the best from around the league to play and mingle with fans sounds like the best way to reach audiences. Plus everyone loves a trophy ceremony.
I really love the idea of Flag Football as an Olympic sport. Since Olympic athletes are in incredible as well as super athletic shape, it could make for a more fair playing field for other countries than just the USA to compete and win. You'd also definitely grow the sport a bunch and get more kids to watch and get into the NFL.
one of the reasons I think it has so far struggled to take off is the complexity of the game and associated costs with all the equipment, when you compare to football and rugby require basically just a ball and you can just say go run at each other. Further, it also doesn't help that contact sport's popularity, in general, is declining due to popularity.
this is the issue with my local international club, reusing the same decade old equipment because we can’t really afford much else, as long as we’re kitted out and hitting blokes we’re happy though
Honestly I disagree on the contact sports part. We humans have always been drawing to violence. Even "peaceful" countries like Spain with its Bull Runs or Eglish Rugby or Roman Gladiators, people just like seeing other people get hurt
I 100% agree with your first point, but rugby is actually one of the fastest growing sports in the world. I think all the equipment and the necessity for lots of players is the biggest problem. The popularity of rugby 7’s especially really shows that I think.
@@ezraclarke4288 fair, im just talking from a southern hemisphere perspective, NZ and AUS rugby has died outside of intl rugby, the total number of plays has declined vastly with the knowledge of head injuries and increasing things to do that don't involve getting whacked haha
@@ezraclarke4288 I think honestly rugby is the other issue with a lot of markets that would be open to american football...they already have something that fills the niche of contact sports so looking at american football its just not that enticing.
I'm an Australian fan of the NFL and I only know 2 other people who also watch it Even tho Basketball became insanely popular over the last few years. However, If they could introduce football at a high school level it could take of.
I'm a fan of both football and basketball from Poland. Your comment proves one of the points brought up in he video, amount of international players has grown in the NBA a last couple of years and many new players came from Australia (Josh Giddey as one of the better examples), so it's not strange that there are more fans in Australia now (also success on last Olympic games). Also if they were to introduce football at high school level it'd probably be flag football as people wouldn't be ready to let their kids play such contact sport out of nowhere, but I guess it'd still be better than nothing.
@@alexszczesnowicz7483 considering the amount of people (including myself) who play rugby and Aussie rules football in Australia I don't think football being a contact sport will hold it back. However, you are right Australians in the NBA have helped basketball become more popular here
im 16 and i live in australia. my dad was born in australia as well but spent a good chunk of his childhood living in canada and san diego so we are big chargers supporters. even though we love the sport hardly anyone at my school knows the rules give or take the few steelers supporters i know. long story short i hope some of these ideas become a reality as i would really love to openly talk about the sport with people
As an Australian NFL fan, I would really love to see the game grow in popularity over here. There are many people aware of the sport but not many people who actually follow a team or follow players of the sport. Hopefully, with the greater emphasis on NFL's international marketing, the sport will grow in popularity over here.
As an NFL fan from Melbourne (Australia) I would definitely say the game is growing, albeit slowly. I wouldn't worry about people not taking to a team in their market, I'm a passionate Packer fan but I and all my mates would most definitely switch if a team was put in Melbourne.
Unfortunately, with current air travel, Australia is just too far away. That flight is brutal. Now if Elon Musk is ever able to make Starship do what he wants, it wouldn't matter where in the world a team is with a flight time of only about 30 minutes. The technology will be there one of these days.
As a British die-hard Niners fan - I will categorically not shift support to Jacksonville. Can you blame me? A London team I'd support, but not above my Niners. Also, the biggest barrier to the sport growing over this side of the pond is the technicality of the rules. I had to trawl youtube and it wasn't until I made friends with some Yanks through uni I got it.
French fan here ! Can't wait for it to develop worldwide, European Football is in dire need of serious competition. Even though Gridiron Football will always be my favourite : so many different athletic profiles, as violent as it is smart, the combine, the draft, college football, salary cap, the hype, the drama... can't beat that !
Brazil has had a steady and decent growth of the NFL and american football since the middle of the 00s (with many locals teams being built) but I think it's basically reached its ceilling. The audience of the NFL is essentially upper class men in their late 20s to early 40s but the sport is completely alien to the average citizen, it's just too complex for regular people to tune in and the game stops a lot. I'm saying this as someone who likes it but acknoledges that people can find it confusing and will prefer to watch the more free flowing and commercial free entertainment that soccer offers. The more global US league is by far the NBA and that's obvious, basketball is a more popular sport worldwide and even though it has its breaks due to timeouts it's still more free flowing, plus despite similar US dominance it has foreign stars while 99% of the NFL players are from the US.
Top 10 places the NFL should consider hosting games: -Paris, France -Rio de Janero, Brazil -Beijing, China -Shanghai, China -Berlin, Germany -Tokyo, Japan -Guadalajara, Mexico -San Juan, Puerto Rico -Madrid, Spain -Barcelona, Spain Honorable Mentions: -Sydney, Australia -Seoul, South Korea -New Delhi, India -Johannesburg, South Africa -Lagos, Nigeria -Moscow, Russia
I think they would rather play in São Paulo, since the place has more history with the sport than us in Rio. Unless you count beach gridiron as a thing.
Western Europeans and Africans from certain areas of Africa are big AF a lot untapped talent out there. If you develop it right and those places could be to football what Latin America is to baseball in terms of developing talent.
i think the more international players the NFL can get, that’s gonna determine their success abroad. One of the main reasons the NBA has been able to succeed in Europe and Asia is guys like Yao Ming, Dirk, Luka, and Jokic becoming household names.
London is a nightmare because of distance, but why not just have a team in Toronto or hell, be the first American sports team to try their hand at Monterrey. Trust me, the fan base is certainly there, and it's only an hour flight from Houston, all things considered, it's certainly a way to go.
There are so many American cities that deserve a team over London. I hate how large cities can be seen as small market and only giant metropolises are considered good for a new team. To contrast this type of thinking, it seems like every tiny village in Europe has a professional or semi-professional soccer team. Why not grow football in the country it is the most popular in? Create new leagues and allow for smaller cities to get involved.
I understand from a financial standpoint why the NFL want to becoming a global sport and is staging international games,Soccer league in Europe are doing the same thing here in America. I liked that Football is or was a purely American sport like AFL is an Australian sport.
this will nver bepopular in world because it is not something people are interested in and when you more and more see them and in dept you see how boring it is
Of all teams to represent taking over the world, the Chargers aren't even on my radar. Like my dude, they couldn't even take over their own city. Now WASHINGTON DC! THAT'S a team that could do it through blackmail with Dan Snaker in charge
G'day Set The edge. I have a few points... Firstly to my Aussie NFL fans... If you have nobody to talk football too. Make a fan page or youtube page I promise you this you won't regret it. I talk Steelers every single day to the world now. 2nd point. I will personally never go watch A live NFL In Australia. To me the NFL games should be watched In well America. I love America and American football So I save my pennies and go to the States when I can to watch football. Steelers 🆚 Ravens Christmas day 2016. 3rd point great video. NFL is growing slowly here down under... however I'd love for the NFL to focus on America. International fans nothing better then seeing your first game. As you visit home for the 1st time. Cheers
11:42 Jordan Mailata didn’t choose tackle he thought he was gonna be a running back. They just put him at tackle and asked him if he has seen the movie to help him understand what a tackle was
Great to have another STE video just in time for me waking up at 1 am. 😂 (this really long af 😭 never asked for a pin before, but maybe one could lead to good discussion on this?) Having been an NFL fan for years now, but as of the past 8 months getting more and more into Association Football/Soccer, I have a somewhat interesting perspective on the NFL and the culture of global sports in general as my horizons have expanded and why I think the NFL has struggled to match the popularity of the other form of Football or gain any global popularity in general, outside of the usual reason of accessibility and safety. For obvious reasons, I'll be mainly comparing the NFL to the world's most popular sport, Soccer/Football. There are TWO key differences in sports culture amongst the two that I think keep the NFL from truly being able to breakthrough in Europe & other continents. #1. This is not a political statement, this is not my opinion, but part of what English, Spanish, German and so on sports fans hate the MOST about current changing Soccer landscape, is how certain things are becoming more American-ized, as American money becomes more prominent in the sport/clubs. In Soccer/Football, the culture is so counter-intuitive to what we have here in the states where everything is revenue-prioritized, capitalist-centric, glitz & glamour, corporitized and so on. The owners & wealthiest of players call the shots and the fans just have to go along with whatever it may be, because after all, they are ones with the big contracts and who owns the teams, right? That is seen as madness by basically the rest of the world (mostly). Soccer + other club sports outside of North America are first & foremost seen as entities prioritized for the FANS first and the amount of influence fans have over their clubs they support, leagues and the sport as a whole is far greater than what we have here, it's almost mind-boggling. Google or UA-cam search the 50+1 Rule in The Bundesliga as a prime example. In simple terms, it allows fans or "members" of a club to retain voting rights as financial investors cannot own a majority of the clubs shares and then push the fans & their influence out. As an American, learning of something like this blew my mind. Imagine fans having 50% of a say in operations of a team like the Patriots or Browns. Obviously there's restrictions in place, but things like this emphasize the culture of Soccer + club sports being way, way, WAY more fan-focused, tailored towards supporters & their interests above the "soul-less profit motive" you mention and so on, something the rest of the world benefits from, but not America, who tolerates or sometimes even downright supports shitty businessmen owning teams with greed in mind and no care for what supporters of a team care about. People in parts of Asia, South America and in particular Europe, just absolutely hate with a passion how American teams/leagues are operated and another good example are the Glazers. Owners of recent Super Bowl Champions (STE's favorite team) The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, also own one of the most storied franchises in all of world sports, Manchester United and it's been an absolute disaster between the Glazers and English fans as a whole, as they represent the American/NFL style of operation that the rest of the world just fucking hates and Man-UTD have absolutely floundered, in majority part because of the Glazers ownership. That's only half of the pie tho. #2. Now this will be political (kinda), but that whole "Shut Up And Dribble" or "Keep Politics Out Of Sports" shit we have here (in particular in the NFL), yeah nah, that's not how the rest of the world be doin things. That mentality is honestly fairly new and really only exists in countries like the US, Canada and somewhat the UK. And it's not because the rest of the global sporting culture is "Liberal" or on the "Left", sporting culture in the rest of the world just embraces & intertwines sports + the cultural landscape of a given region far, far, FAR more than we do here. Whether that be how Real Madrid vs Barcelona represents Conservative Spanish Nationalism vs Underdog Blue Collar Catalonia or PSG's rule over Ligue 1 represents Paris as the wealthy, bourgeois capital that many people in other parts of France oppose; Politics/socio-economic sentiments aren't shunned in sports culture like they are here, they're purposefully represented in the sporting culture in basically every other continent other than North America. Fans take pride in representing their beliefs through sport (search Beitar-Jerusalem 💀💀) and we just don't have it like that, in particular the NFL doesn't have it like that. I honestly personally feel these two cultural reasons represents just how worlds apart American Sports/NFL+MLB are compared to the rest of the planet, more so than any one safety, equipment access, rule reason ever could and it honestly feels like that these are the biggest hurdles, not whether or not kids have an adequate space to play hand egg safely. But what do I know... AM AMERICA MAN, PLEASE GIVE CHEEZBORGAR AND ONE TICKET TO THE RASCAL FLATTS CONCERT.
the number 1 competitor to the nfl around the world is rugby not soccer its going to take many decades for the nfl to be as popular as the nba overseas
I can imagine something like flag having taken hold and captured the public's attention from the start, had things gone in that direction, but the heavy-pads-and-heavy-hits paradigm is so entrenched at this point (nearly 3/4 of a century) that I don't see a road to there from here that maintains passion and interest. Flag's best hope for the future, and that is a long shot, might even be if tackle sharply declines in its own right, and later flag is allowed to rise as its own thing to be contemplated and appreciated--rather than as a "reform" of tackle. That said, flag may well displace tackle at the pee wee level. The NFL may even throw its entire weight behind eradicating youth tackle if it starts to really panic about its future. (Right now it probably still thinks doing anything to highlight any safety stigma to football will produce attrition at the transition to high school tackle that isn't worth anything gained to soothe some parents at the youth level--and that it will only lead to pressure to move the tackle transition to college or worse. For all the cash it's currently swimming in, though, it has to know it might have to throw that hail mary someday.)
As a Canadian the NFL does know that the only team that has consistently been playing in Canada, for some years now, has been the Buffalo Bills. Not the Seahawks and Vikings....
I don't think content creators like Pat McAfee, UrinatingTree, Tom Grossi, etc. get enough credit for growing fan interest in the NFL. The NFL tries to push their league through constant ads and marketing, but many fans nowadays find the NFL through the UA-cam algorithm recognizing these creators, and curious viewers learning more and eventually becoming interested in football after watching these content creators videos
As a european fan, I know this is 99% being done for the money, but putting this much money and effort into growing this awesome sport internationally has to be applauded.
@261i7 Fake football is popular because sadly, much of the world has not yet heard of real football! but thankfully, we are heading to the olympics in 2028, and the NFL will in a couple year also expand with a european divisions, including such already popular teams such as the Rhein Fire or Frankfurt Galaxy:)
Without promotion and relegation I don't see the NFL ever really taking over the world as to the rest of us it's insane there's no real stakes at the end of a season . Losing costs you nothing really unlike in soccer when you get kicked from the league down to a lower one
I am a french NFL fan and Flag Football player. Football culture is very hard to grow around here. Most of the competitions are dominated by the only few historic clubs, founded by the people who brought the sport in France. So it's hard for new clubs to exists and promote the sport at the same time. Our organisation is only 3 years old, and while we won the french championship this year, we are still struggling to bring new player to the sport, despite our efforts in our city and on social medias. They are a few exceptions of course, and some of the divisions display fierce competition. However the skill level is honestly pretty low. I am sure the top high school teams in the US can beat our national team... With rugby we have very good tacklers and running backs, but the rest of the positions, especially QB, is seriously lacking. And I'm not even talking about our trainings and play book, which are frankensteined from what we can gather on the internet
Hear me out, yeah? What if they busted out the Concords again as the main means of transportation between EU-US for the players, staff and coaches? This would very easily eliminate the whole “having to travel 8-13 hours from X state to Y country in EU” problem. The Concord had one of, if not the cleanest safety records in history. I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t be an option.
The Concord had numerous other problems before the crash that ulitmately killed it. Nobody wanted to hear sonic booms that could damage buildings, cars, and ear drums. The fuel for the supersonic jets is getting more and more expensive, and maintenance costs kept going up. Absolutely terrible idea.
I think the reality is that the NFL is the most ‘American’ of the leagues - most people here in Europe just don’t relate with a lot of the things in the league (draft, salary cap), especially the massive advertisement/consumerism. For most people who are football(soccer) fans the constant breaks with ads just don’t work.
@@rimgar7013 I’m european and I acquired the NFL and american football taste to the point of absolutely loving it, but boy do I HATE the constant commercial breaks lol.
Despite being an American who loves football, I don’t see the Olympic thing paying off at all. Like if something as globally popular as Cricket can’t manage to be an Olympic sport more than once, I don’t think US football (flag or not) can gather enough support to have a legit shot.
I think cricket's not globally popular either, it has a following in some former British colonies (including India, which is what makes it look more popular than it is) and that's the people who try to spring it at other places, regardless of whether people care or not. Gridiron ain't much better but it's at least known in most places.
Live in EU. I usually watch them highlights since the games just are at a time where im most likely going to sleep or already sleeping. Have tried to watch some games live but damn there are so many stoppages therefore there are a shtload of commercials. Not used to that sht when u have crown up with football (soccer) and i always hated the commercial during movies on TV channels back in the day.
I‘am a 49ers Fan from Germany for over a decade now. I‘ve seen a couple of games in London and I‘m glad that the European League of Football is growing. Today I‘ll visit the Rhein Fire Game with their Head Coach Jim Tomsula and as much as I disliked him in San Francisco, I‘m extremely happy to see such a guy in Düsseldorf. But I have more faith in the future of this league because it is mostly independet from the NFL. Hopefully we will find our european way. Guys, greetings from Germany. Football is family! 😄
Speaking of expanding American Football worldwide presence, I remember when we had Eyeshield 21 Anime broadcasted in our national TV and we had the closest thing to American Football boom here in Indonesia (Hell, I and my schoolmates played some kind of bare(st)-bone American Football before the teacher stopped us for messing with the school infrastructure). Of course, the biggest challenge of spreading American Football presence worldwide is the accessibility. Sports that can be easily played in an empty lot are more popular here (like Associate Football/Futsal and Badminton). This is coming from someone who watch more American Football more than any other sports thanks to UA-camrs like you.
I played American Football in Brasil, we where the 2nd or thrid marked of consumers of the league, we have a league who is trying to get more professional, if the league invest right now in infrastructure (Since every dolar cost about 5 reais) and development this could help the growth, and also a game played in Brasil , Maracanã in Rio, ou Allianz Arena in São Paulo, they will be sould out, no doubt about that.
I mean the NFL is pretty much as popular as hockey in canada and way bigger than hockey where I live in canada so they’re successfully internationally already
I'll say this whilst generally more people here in Europe keep up with Basketball than American Football, I can't emphasise *enough* how much easier it is to watch NFL games. I live in the UK the the Sunday games start at 6pm 9:15pm and 1:20am and Monday/Thursday games also at 1:20am Aside from Sunday games you're lucky in the UK if a NBA game starts at 11pm and the UK timezone wise is even the best placed in Europe (aside from Iceland) but for sure the game profile is growing here more people are definitely watching and there more coverage now than its ever been Also as Rugby is popular here there's some interchangeable aspect of Rugby and American Football and I think the growth can be sustainable plus once people get past the part that you don't really play the game with your foot it's genuinely an interesting game to watch
Personally, the Rams in Australia is a dream come true for me. And if they played a game against the Cowboys who my dad follows I am selling a lung just to go to it.
I live in Australia and have been an nfl/broncos fan since 2010! what got me started is from 2010-2015 my job had a 4 day week (every monday off) and for us NFL is played early monday morning. I know Australia is a small market but until people have a way to watch live games at a different time it will just be a handful of us!
I've spent nearly 46 years in the USA, as an immigrant, and I STILL can't watch a complete NFL game because, quite frankly, too many interruptions, pauses, substitutions, time-outs and commercial breaks. Rugby will dominate the NFL.
If the NFL wants to expand internationally then they should take some of those profits and put them into founding high school and college level leagues in other countries That’s how you expand
Football has become a year-round event, so having various leagues pop-up across the globe and participate in a world championship like the Champions League is something the NFL should most definitely establish in the next 20 years or so. You'd be surprised at how much lucrative influence the sport would draw for the impoverished communities, especially across Africa
Football is very expensive. But what they could do is have flag football leagues which is really cheap to play and top african colleges could have their own college programs funded by the nfl. This is probably only feasible in like Nigeria, South Africa, and maybe Sierra Leone, or in the EAF area with Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, etc. I feel Nigeria and the EAF area are the most plausible by far though.
If you are going to do this change the name of the league to NGL because it’s Gridiron NOT football, what we stupidly call soccer is real Football, where you literally use your feet 95% of the time and you don’t with this sport.
"NFLs plot to take over the World" Why are the Chargers the thumbnail bro we can't even take over LA 😭😭
Sad but true 😭😭
Cant wait to black out SoFi again this year.
Lol
Stop making fun of the Chargers. They'll sooner win the Super Bowl than the Raiders ever will again.
@@sjdrifter72 hahahaha
Unironically this is one of the most enjoyable channels I watch. Not my favorite, but any time I’m bored and see a video by you I haven’t watched I’m always like “well this will probbaly be good and definitely be great background noise”
solid background noise is the only goal I strive for tbh. I appreciate you!
Should have done this for Aprils fools day… it deserves its own day.
If I had to pick international cities for nfl teams. I'd go London, Munich, a city in italy and Mexico city
nice MF DOOM instrumentals as background music
That thumbnail.....is pretty sick 💀
The title didn't interest me... but the thumbnail was a chargers player... so I had to watch. hahahahaha Bolt UP WHOOOOOP
American football needs more commercials.
appreciate the DOOM background music
The NFL doesn't need any more franchises. or more games. They just need more eyeballs. Build some mini "stadiiums", flush with Gigantic screens and surround sound, in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Send some practice players to the Asian countries so they can see the game up-close, and the league will literally have a billion new fans in about 10 years. Make the stadiums something for the middle and upper middle and the wealthy, then beam games to rest on satellites. Indonesians are absolutely fanatical about local soccer teams. They would go insane over football, especially if the League established some brother teams in Indonesia. Easy money for everyone and the players could have their salaries guaranteed.
What is this? Smh
i play american football in the netherlands go trojans
You root for USC?
If there's any here smarter or more knowledgeable that could explain how the growth of football in America Samoa, and Australia happened? If you can replicate this I think you could gain more international fans. Just a tidbit of a thought.
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As a British American Football fan and player. You did a great job explaining the growth of the NFL abroad however you failed to mention there initiative in Europe for creating a High school team called the NFL Academy who have gained 15+ players, NCAA D1 scholarships over just a 3 year existence, and with more scholarships coming day by day as college coaches start to find out about us (NFL Academy). Not to mention the players we have sent to colleges in Canada and Mexico as well as players who have gone on to play in professional leagues across Europe, which brings me onto my next point. You also didn’t mention the big leagues in Europe who are doing a great job in growing the game and therefore the NFL internationally, the two big leagues are called the German Football League (GFL) and the European League of Football (ELF), The GFL has been around for years, growing to have a huge loyal fan base in Germany, making American football one of there top sports, behind Soccer ⚽️. The ELF is a brand new league, in its second season now, and is a league which has teams from all over Europe and is expanding in size week by week, I recommended you look into both of these leagues as it really does show how the game of football is growing internationally in Europe. Finally you can also look at the grass root teams in all countries for football, such as BAFA in the UK, which isn’t the best of all leagues but it gets 100s if not 1000s of british kids into the game every year, many of which have gone on to play at the NFL academy or other high school teams in the UK such as Filton Pride, and then gone on to play in the US across many levels. High school football seems to be the answer to growing the sport internationally and getting more international players into the league, the top high school (u19)teams in Europe include The NFL Academy, Düsseldorf Panthers, RIG Academy, Filton Pride and many others, which i recommend you look into as they have sent players to top schools in the US and have developed players who are playing in All-American Games.
Another person who is doing bits for the games growth, not just in Europe but internationally is Brandon Collier of PPI Recruits, his company is from Germany and focuses on taking the top high school talent from across the globe to the US and competing in camps in order to gain scholarships, he has gotten 100s of kids D1 scholarships from Europe, Australia and most recently Africa over around a 5 year span. To show his power and reach, it is important we highlight one kid called Momo Cissokho, from Senegal, without playing a snap of football in his life or ever even wearing a set of pads and helmet, Brandon has gotten him a Scholarship from The University of Oregon, have i mentioned he hasn’t even ever stepped foot in The US, but a football powerhouse has offered him a scholarship, this is crazy and shows the reach and trust US colleges have in Brandon and his players.
Wether it’s growing the game at the high school level or professional level, Europe seems to be doing a great job at it as of recent, and i just wanted to highlight this as you failed to mention it, however great video as always mate, good watch.
Damn that was long. I tried buddy
That's really interesting, thanks for sharing some of this
I ain’t reading all that but I’m happy for you!
Or I’m sorry that happened
i actually didn’t know know about the d1 players coming out of the uk that’s awesome
I still remember taking the Colts in Madden 08 and just absolutely obliterating the Amsterdam Admirals lmao
Prime Peyton Manning against a foreign practice squad is just filthy
Is this a tongue-in-cheek reference to drop a vid at a time that's better to watch for us in the UK than the US?
If so, that's hilarious and genius
I'm an Australian Vikings supporter. For most of my life, the only American sport I cared about was basketball. I had no interest NFL.
That all changed after watching some full NFL games during 2018, I picked up a mild interest in the sport. I watched more and more games over the years, became more and more into the sport.
Something about it is so interesting to me.
I do hope it can grow more, the only person I can talk to about the NFL is my dad, and he's a Bears supporter!
It’s such a unique sport. Maybe not the best, but it’s literally like 2 different armies marching down field. It’s so orderly yet so chaotic that it feels like no other sport in the world.
Same here! I hopped in a fantasy league start of last season since I already do NBA and AFL fantasy, drafted whatever names I already knew, and watched games just to see how my players were doing. Next thing you know, every Monday I’m watching games all day while working from home. Should’ve got into it earlier, it’s fantastic watching NFL during the AFL offseason. Decided to go for the Bills because my fantasy QB was Josh Allen and I already go for the Knicks, so might as well keep it in the same state.
Lots of my mates are getting into it these days as well. It’ll never be a dominant sport down here, but 10 years ago you would’ve got laughed out of a room for suggesting people should watch NFL, Kayo being so accessible has made things come a long way
BEAR DOWN!!!! 🐻 ⬇️
I bet y'all argue twice a year 😆
Australian giants fan here, getting involved in the online community kept me interested, and I love reading up on what's new with the Giants and the league.
There’s actually a new European league now which features some Teams from the NFL Europe like Berlin Thunder, Hamburg Sea Devils and Frankfurt Galaxy. We even have an ex NFL Headcoach (Jim Tomsula), who coaches Rhein Fire. I think that plays into growing the game especially here in Germany but also other European countries like Poland and Spain (they also have teams). The league has just started its second season and already experienced growth with more teams joining and attendance as well as tv audience increasing
Name?
@@LentilSoupChilean European League of Football
@@matz3rr982 thanks
I men’s they even now do a couple game sim erp up I forgot what the stadium is
@@argynews2825 Allianz Arena it’s in Munich (Germany)
I'm 22 and live in Brazil, I have been watching the NFL for about 6 years now and I can personally say it was grown A LOT around here, I think Brazil is in the top 3 of American Football fans outside of the US and now some national leagues are starting to slowly develop. With games now being held in Germany, I think Brazil could very well be the next in line for an international game, would be a dream come true to watch a NFL game in person
I mean I'm from Brazil too and I'm a colts fan (I visited america)
@@Tapping12738 for the shoe 🤍💙
Did that have anything to do with Tom Brady's wife?
Just imagine an NFL game in a full-packed Maracana. Goosebumps!
@@brownjatt21 no
The NFL does a piss poor job at player development in general. European football clubs (whether big or small) have their own academies where kids (both local and international) can develop into first team stars. The only way to internationalize the NFL would be to start making their own academies.
But the NCAA does this for free and the owners wouldn't want to actually pony up the money to build their own developmental league. You would have to start training these kids when they're 13 - 15 years old and most of them wouldn't make it to the pros.
It’s doable if we have more leagues below the NFL a la the premier league and champions league in England
@@elnumbrotres it's called the CFL, USFL, XFL, IFL, AFL, ETC...
The NCAA doesn't do it for free. They do it for tax dollars and insane profits hidden in not-for-profit 'expenses'
@@lemonator8813 Unfortunately not. CFL is almost a different sport with how different the rules are, and the other leagues are competitors.
@@kman9884 yes they are competitors. But the CFL acts as the de facto minor league, while college would be the developmental league.
I can name 6 players off the rip that were top prospects or players last season that are now on an NFL team this summer and the only team I follow are the Bombers.
It should be a European division. Let teams go there for a tour of games and have that division come to the US for a tour of games. That would make the travel less impactful and give the European market home teams that play American teams.
There's not a enough talent for 4 more teams
@@bobartbones7957 There’s enough talent in Europe for an 8-12 team league across multiple countries.
@@bobartbones7957There definitely is. There are 250+ college prospects coming out a year, it'll impact the play for about 2 years, but it'll all even out after a while. And if there's nfl teams in europe/africa, then local colleges will be WAY more inclined to consider adding a football program
The European League of Football (ELF) is a new interesting try to implement football in Europe. This league could grow a lot of possible pathway players and spread interest in the sport around Europe. The NFL should look for cooperation with the ELF. A naturally grown league with homegrown players you can identify with is probably the most promissing way of implementing the sport in Europe, even though it is hard to compete with other sports that are older and have more history than the US itself. You should look into that
A lot of people have been mentioning the ELF and the GFL, but I haven't seen many people mentioning the X-league, a 51 year old Japanese Gridiron Football league. Their website claims that their level of play is comparable to that of the CFL (I'm not sure if that's true or not).
They limit teams to 4 foreign-born players, with no more than 2 on the field at once, so it's almost entirely compromised of homegrown talent. There's a few Americans in the X-League. In 2020, former UC Davis QB Jimmy Laughrea led the Obic Seagulls to a Championship, and in 2021 former Wake Forest LB Jaboree Williams was the X1 Super (top division in the x-league) MVP.
I’ve never understood why the pro bowl is never played in London. It’s perfect. There are many different fans of many different teams in Europe so getting a chance to bring the best of the best from around the league to play and mingle with fans sounds like the best way to reach audiences. Plus everyone loves a trophy ceremony.
because the pro bowl usually is a shit game
@@lemonator8813 the Jaguars play there every year. They’re used to shit games lol
Soccer is the best sport
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I really love the idea of Flag Football as an Olympic sport. Since Olympic athletes are in incredible as well as super athletic shape, it could make for a more fair playing field for other countries than just the USA to compete and win. You'd also definitely grow the sport a bunch and get more kids to watch and get into the NFL.
WHY WOULD I WATCH 4 HOURS OF COMMERCIAL BREAKS WHEN I CAN WATCH 2 HOURS STRAIGHT OF MAN UTD BEING BAD?
That sounds as much fun as a UTI.
@@tomboard1 ?
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Because the worlds football ⚽️ is just not what we call football 🏈 and it will take many many years until it is the level of there sport
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one of the reasons I think it has so far struggled to take off is the complexity of the game and associated costs with all the equipment, when you compare to football and rugby require basically just a ball and you can just say go run at each other.
Further, it also doesn't help that contact sport's popularity, in general, is declining due to popularity.
this is the issue with my local international club, reusing the same decade old equipment because we can’t really afford much else, as long as we’re kitted out and hitting blokes we’re happy though
Honestly I disagree on the contact sports part. We humans have always been drawing to violence. Even "peaceful" countries like Spain with its Bull Runs or Eglish Rugby or Roman Gladiators, people just like seeing other people get hurt
I 100% agree with your first point, but rugby is actually one of the fastest growing sports in the world. I think all the equipment and the necessity for lots of players is the biggest problem. The popularity of rugby 7’s especially really shows that I think.
@@ezraclarke4288 fair, im just talking from a southern hemisphere perspective, NZ and AUS rugby has died outside of intl rugby, the total number of plays has declined vastly with the knowledge of head injuries and increasing things to do that don't involve getting whacked haha
@@ezraclarke4288 I think honestly rugby is the other issue with a lot of markets that would be open to american football...they already have something that fills the niche of contact sports so looking at american football its just not that enticing.
I'm an Australian fan of the NFL and I only know 2 other people who also watch it Even tho Basketball became insanely popular over the last few years. However, If they could introduce football at a high school level it could take of.
I'm a fan of both football and basketball from Poland. Your comment proves one of the points brought up in he video, amount of international players has grown in the NBA a last couple of years and many new players came from Australia (Josh Giddey as one of the better examples), so it's not strange that there are more fans in Australia now (also success on last Olympic games). Also if they were to introduce football at high school level it'd probably be flag football as people wouldn't be ready to let their kids play such contact sport out of nowhere, but I guess it'd still be better than nothing.
@@alexszczesnowicz7483 considering the amount of people (including myself) who play rugby and Aussie rules football in Australia I don't think football being a contact sport will hold it back. However, you are right Australians in the NBA have helped basketball become more popular here
@@seb4189 oh, I forgot rugby is your national sport, so football should be ok with contact haha
@@alexszczesnowicz7483
Technically Australian football is the ‘national sport’, but contact wouldn’t be the issue, being too slow a game would be.
@@bluecollarscientist216 by national sport I meant the most popular (for example, Germany or Poland would be football/soccer).
Perfect upload time for your european fans
im 16 and i live in australia. my dad was born in australia as well but spent a good chunk of his childhood living in canada and san diego so we are big chargers supporters. even though we love the sport hardly anyone at my school knows the rules give or take the few steelers supporters i know. long story short i hope some of these ideas become a reality as i would really love to openly talk about the sport with people
Bolt up!!!
As an Australian NFL fan, I would really love to see the game grow in popularity over here. There are many people aware of the sport but not many people who actually follow a team or follow players of the sport. Hopefully, with the greater emphasis on NFL's international marketing, the sport will grow in popularity over here.
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As an NFL fan from Melbourne (Australia) I would definitely say the game is growing, albeit slowly. I wouldn't worry about people not taking to a team in their market, I'm a passionate Packer fan but I and all my mates would most definitely switch if a team was put in Melbourne.
Unfortunately, with current air travel, Australia is just too far away. That flight is brutal. Now if Elon Musk is ever able to make Starship do what he wants, it wouldn't matter where in the world a team is with a flight time of only about 30 minutes. The technology will be there one of these days.
@@tomboard1 oh yeah, absolutely I know it’s logistically impossible
As a British die-hard Niners fan - I will categorically not shift support to Jacksonville. Can you blame me? A London team I'd support, but not above my Niners. Also, the biggest barrier to the sport growing over this side of the pond is the technicality of the rules. I had to trawl youtube and it wasn't until I made friends with some Yanks through uni I got it.
Great stuff as always, man. We love your videos, keep it up
Thank you!
I think you could've mentioned the European League of Football
as a argentinan american football fan, I would love this game makes more popular worldwide and have it professionaly everywhere :)
FUAAAAAA otro argentino acá. Ni en mi mas remoto sueño pensé encontrar esto
@@lilsebastian2209 yo todavia quiero probarme en la liga de acá para cagarme bien a palos jajaj
Fr as an American My whole life is associated around football ever since I was young and I wanted it to spread around the world
Que traidor
jajaj, alto Cipayo
French fan here ! Can't wait for it to develop worldwide, European Football is in dire need of serious competition. Even though Gridiron Football will always be my favourite : so many different athletic profiles, as violent as it is smart, the combine, the draft, college football, salary cap, the hype, the drama... can't beat that !
Brazil has had a steady and decent growth of the NFL and american football since the middle of the 00s (with many locals teams being built) but I think it's basically reached its ceilling. The audience of the NFL is essentially upper class men in their late 20s to early 40s but the sport is completely alien to the average citizen, it's just too complex for regular people to tune in and the game stops a lot. I'm saying this as someone who likes it but acknoledges that people can find it confusing and will prefer to watch the more free flowing and commercial free entertainment that soccer offers. The more global US league is by far the NBA and that's obvious, basketball is a more popular sport worldwide and even though it has its breaks due to timeouts it's still more free flowing, plus despite similar US dominance it has foreign stars while 99% of the NFL players are from the US.
Top 10 places the NFL should consider hosting games:
-Paris, France
-Rio de Janero, Brazil
-Beijing, China
-Shanghai, China
-Berlin, Germany
-Tokyo, Japan
-Guadalajara, Mexico
-San Juan, Puerto Rico
-Madrid, Spain
-Barcelona, Spain
Honorable Mentions:
-Sydney, Australia
-Seoul, South Korea
-New Delhi, India
-Johannesburg, South Africa
-Lagos, Nigeria
-Moscow, Russia
I think they would rather play in São Paulo, since the place has more history with the sport than us in Rio. Unless you count beach gridiron as a thing.
Not Moscow, but Kyiv Ukraine, Tbilisi Georgia and Bucharest Romania, Istanbul Turkey
Western Europeans and Africans from certain areas of Africa are big AF a lot untapped talent out there. If you develop it right and those places could be to football what Latin America is to baseball in terms of developing talent.
I love the NFL and I'm from Australia, and it's growing and growing big. Hopefully cricket does the same!
It'll never overtake football (soccer to you americans) worldwide
soccer is in big trouble in europe
@@fadercreek proof
i think the more international players the NFL can get, that’s gonna determine their success abroad. One of the main reasons the NBA has been able to succeed in Europe and Asia is guys like Yao Ming, Dirk, Luka, and Jokic becoming household names.
Yeah but no one plays American football outside of America
London is a nightmare because of distance, but why not just have a team in Toronto or hell, be the first American sports team to try their hand at Monterrey. Trust me, the fan base is certainly there, and it's only an hour flight from Houston, all things considered, it's certainly a way to go.
There are so many American cities that deserve a team over London. I hate how large cities can be seen as small market and only giant metropolises are considered good for a new team. To contrast this type of thinking, it seems like every tiny village in Europe has a professional or semi-professional soccer team. Why not grow football in the country it is the most popular in? Create new leagues and allow for smaller cities to get involved.
As an Australian I love the NFL but I just love Australian rules more. I would say Aussie Rules is a better game to watch in general.
Yeah, the NFL is a hard sell to Australians with AFL and NRL. Even just rugby in Europe.
@@bluecollarscientist216 don't get me wrong I really enjoy the NFL but my heart belongs to Footy
I understand from a financial standpoint why the NFL want to becoming a global sport and is staging international games,Soccer league in Europe are doing the same thing here in America.
I liked that Football is or was a purely American sport like AFL is an Australian sport.
this will nver bepopular in world because it is not something people are interested in and when you more and more see them and in dept you see how boring it is
Soccer is boring 😂
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Of all teams to represent taking over the world, the Chargers aren't even on my radar. Like my dude, they couldn't even take over their own city. Now WASHINGTON DC! THAT'S a team that could do it through blackmail with Dan Snaker in charge
G'day Set The edge.
I have a few points...
Firstly to my Aussie NFL fans... If you have nobody to talk football too.
Make a fan page or youtube page
I promise you this you won't regret it.
I talk Steelers every single day to the world now.
2nd point.
I will personally never go watch A live NFL In Australia.
To me the NFL games should be watched In well America.
I love America and American football
So I save my pennies and go to the States when I can to watch football.
Steelers 🆚 Ravens Christmas day 2016.
3rd point great video.
NFL is growing slowly here down under... however I'd love for the NFL to focus on America.
International fans nothing better then seeing your first game.
As you visit home for the 1st time.
Cheers
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11:42 Jordan Mailata didn’t choose tackle he thought he was gonna be a running back. They just put him at tackle and asked him if he has seen the movie to help him understand what a tackle was
Toronto, Canada really deserves an NLF franchise before Europe.
Great to have another STE video just in time for me waking up at 1 am. 😂
(this really long af 😭 never asked for a pin before, but maybe one could lead to good discussion on this?)
Having been an NFL fan for years now, but as of the past 8 months getting more and more into Association Football/Soccer, I have a somewhat interesting perspective on the NFL and the culture of global sports in general as my horizons have expanded and why I think the NFL has struggled to match the popularity of the other form of Football or gain any global popularity in general, outside of the usual reason of accessibility and safety.
For obvious reasons, I'll be mainly comparing the NFL to the world's most popular sport, Soccer/Football.
There are TWO key differences in sports culture amongst the two that I think keep the NFL from truly being able to breakthrough in Europe & other continents.
#1. This is not a political statement, this is not my opinion, but part of what English, Spanish, German and so on sports fans hate the MOST about current changing Soccer landscape, is how certain things are becoming more American-ized, as American money becomes more prominent in the sport/clubs.
In Soccer/Football, the culture is so counter-intuitive to what we have here in the states where everything is revenue-prioritized, capitalist-centric, glitz & glamour, corporitized and so on. The owners & wealthiest of players call the shots and the fans just have to go along with whatever it may be, because after all, they are ones with the big contracts and who owns the teams, right? That is seen as madness by basically the rest of the world (mostly).
Soccer + other club sports outside of North America are first & foremost seen as entities prioritized for the FANS first and the amount of influence fans have over their clubs they support, leagues and the sport as a whole is far greater than what we have here, it's almost mind-boggling. Google or UA-cam search the 50+1 Rule in The Bundesliga as a prime example. In simple terms, it allows fans or "members" of a club to retain voting rights as financial investors cannot own a majority of the clubs shares and then push the fans & their influence out. As an American, learning of something like this blew my mind. Imagine fans having 50% of a say in operations of a team like the Patriots or Browns. Obviously there's restrictions in place, but things like this emphasize the culture of Soccer + club sports being way, way, WAY more fan-focused, tailored towards supporters & their interests above the "soul-less profit motive" you mention and so on, something the rest of the world benefits from, but not America, who tolerates or sometimes even downright supports shitty businessmen owning teams with greed in mind and no care for what supporters of a team care about.
People in parts of Asia, South America and in particular Europe, just absolutely hate with a passion how American teams/leagues are operated and another good example are the Glazers. Owners of recent Super Bowl Champions (STE's favorite team) The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, also own one of the most storied franchises in all of world sports, Manchester United and it's been an absolute disaster between the Glazers and English fans as a whole, as they represent the American/NFL style of operation that the rest of the world just fucking hates and Man-UTD have absolutely floundered, in majority part because of the Glazers ownership.
That's only half of the pie tho.
#2. Now this will be political (kinda), but that whole "Shut Up And Dribble" or "Keep Politics Out Of Sports" shit we have here (in particular in the NFL), yeah nah, that's not how the rest of the world be doin things. That mentality is honestly fairly new and really only exists in countries like the US, Canada and somewhat the UK. And it's not because the rest of the global sporting culture is "Liberal" or on the "Left", sporting culture in the rest of the world just embraces & intertwines sports + the cultural landscape of a given region far, far, FAR more than we do here. Whether that be how Real Madrid vs Barcelona represents Conservative Spanish Nationalism vs Underdog Blue Collar Catalonia or PSG's rule over Ligue 1 represents Paris as the wealthy, bourgeois capital that many people in other parts of France oppose;
Politics/socio-economic sentiments aren't shunned in sports culture like they are here, they're purposefully represented in the sporting culture in basically every other continent other than North America. Fans take pride in representing their beliefs through sport (search Beitar-Jerusalem 💀💀) and we just don't have it like that, in particular the NFL doesn't have it like that.
I honestly personally feel these two cultural reasons represents just how worlds apart American Sports/NFL+MLB are compared to the rest of the planet, more so than any one safety, equipment access, rule reason ever could and it honestly feels like that these are the biggest hurdles, not whether or not kids have an adequate space to play hand egg safely. But what do I know... AM AMERICA MAN, PLEASE GIVE CHEEZBORGAR AND ONE TICKET TO THE RASCAL FLATTS CONCERT.
the number 1 competitor to the nfl around the world is rugby not soccer its going to take many decades for the nfl to be as popular as the nba overseas
So, is flag football the true future of the sport?
We can only hope
I can imagine something like flag having taken hold and captured the public's attention from the start, had things gone in that direction, but the heavy-pads-and-heavy-hits paradigm is so entrenched at this point (nearly 3/4 of a century) that I don't see a road to there from here that maintains passion and interest. Flag's best hope for the future, and that is a long shot, might even be if tackle sharply declines in its own right, and later flag is allowed to rise as its own thing to be contemplated and appreciated--rather than as a "reform" of tackle.
That said, flag may well displace tackle at the pee wee level. The NFL may even throw its entire weight behind eradicating youth tackle if it starts to really panic about its future. (Right now it probably still thinks doing anything to highlight any safety stigma to football will produce attrition at the transition to high school tackle that isn't worth anything gained to soothe some parents at the youth level--and that it will only lead to pressure to move the tackle transition to college or worse. For all the cash it's currently swimming in, though, it has to know it might have to throw that hail mary someday.)
As a Canadian the NFL does know that the only team that has consistently been playing in Canada, for some years now, has been the Buffalo Bills. Not the Seahawks and Vikings....
I don't think content creators like Pat McAfee, UrinatingTree, Tom Grossi, etc. get enough credit for growing fan interest in the NFL. The NFL tries to push their league through constant ads and marketing, but many fans nowadays find the NFL through the UA-cam algorithm recognizing these creators, and curious viewers learning more and eventually becoming interested in football after watching these content creators videos
As a european fan, I know this is 99% being done for the money, but putting this much money and effort into growing this awesome sport internationally has to be applauded.
@261i7 You care enough to watch this video and respond to my comment twice. Plus I am literally a european fan. European football is 20x more boring😴
@261i7 I am still european, no matter how much you try to insist otherwise.
@261i7 Fake football is popular because sadly, much of the world has not yet heard of real football! but thankfully, we are heading to the olympics in 2028, and the NFL will in a couple year also expand with a european divisions, including such already popular teams such as the Rhein Fire or Frankfurt Galaxy:)
@261i7 keep crying❤
@261i7 took your time to respond lmao. American football is the second most popular sport in germany❤️
Minnesota and Seattle?! the NFL knows that ~1/3 of all Canadians live within a driving distance to Buffalo right?!
Without promotion and relegation I don't see the NFL ever really taking over the world as to the rest of us it's insane there's no real stakes at the end of a season . Losing costs you nothing really unlike in soccer when you get kicked from the league down to a lower one
No U.S. sport has this though (other than mls maybe I don’t know how that works). And other sports leagues that do well are fine without it.
The Bills have huge fan base in Ontario. Plenty of season ticket holders.
Bro on that one in the morning grind.
I am a french NFL fan and Flag Football player. Football culture is very hard to grow around here. Most of the competitions are dominated by the only few historic clubs, founded by the people who brought the sport in France. So it's hard for new clubs to exists and promote the sport at the same time.
Our organisation is only 3 years old, and while we won the french championship this year, we are still struggling to bring new player to the sport, despite our efforts in our city and on social medias.
They are a few exceptions of course, and some of the divisions display fierce competition. However the skill level is honestly pretty low. I am sure the top high school teams in the US can beat our national team... With rugby we have very good tacklers and running backs, but the rest of the positions, especially QB, is seriously lacking. And I'm not even talking about our trainings and play book, which are frankensteined from what we can gather on the internet
rip technoblade
I could totally see flag football being an Olympic sport. They could even do mixed teams, 3 guys 2 women.
wow tha sounds better since our society has grown more inclusive. This is such a good idea :)
@@dreamer5687 they have mixed curling, that's where I got the idea
Hear me out, yeah?
What if they busted out the Concords again as the main means of transportation between EU-US for the players, staff and coaches? This would very easily eliminate the whole “having to travel 8-13 hours from X state to Y country in EU” problem.
The Concord had one of, if not the cleanest safety records in history. I don’t see a reason why it wouldn’t be an option.
The Concord had numerous other problems before the crash that ulitmately killed it. Nobody wanted to hear sonic booms that could damage buildings, cars, and ear drums. The fuel for the supersonic jets is getting more and more expensive, and maintenance costs kept going up. Absolutely terrible idea.
I love Scotland but if the nfl wants to open up its international revenue a country with the population of Minnesota might not cut it
I think the reality is that the NFL is the most ‘American’ of the leagues - most people here in Europe just don’t relate with a lot of the things in the league (draft, salary cap), especially the massive advertisement/consumerism. For most people who are football(soccer) fans the constant breaks with ads just don’t work.
I'm pretty sure most American football fans would rather watch the sidelines during breaks instead of ads too
@@rimgar7013 I’m european and I acquired the NFL and american football taste to the point of absolutely loving it, but boy do I HATE the constant commercial breaks lol.
Despite being an American who loves football, I don’t see the Olympic thing paying off at all. Like if something as globally popular as Cricket can’t manage to be an Olympic sport more than once, I don’t think US football (flag or not) can gather enough support to have a legit shot.
I think cricket's not globally popular either, it has a following in some former British colonies (including India, which is what makes it look more popular than it is) and that's the people who try to spring it at other places, regardless of whether people care or not.
Gridiron ain't much better but it's at least known in most places.
Live in EU. I usually watch them highlights since the games just are at a time where im most likely going to sleep or already sleeping. Have tried to watch some games live but damn there are so many stoppages therefore there are a shtload of commercials. Not used to that sht when u have crown up with football (soccer) and i always hated the commercial during movies on TV channels back in the day.
I‘am a 49ers Fan from Germany for over a decade now. I‘ve seen a couple of games in London and I‘m glad that the European League of Football is growing. Today I‘ll visit the Rhein Fire Game with their Head Coach Jim Tomsula and as much as I disliked him in San Francisco, I‘m extremely happy to see such a guy in Düsseldorf. But I have more faith in the future of this league because it is mostly independet from the NFL. Hopefully we will find our european way.
Guys, greetings from Germany. Football is family! 😄
Speaking of expanding American Football worldwide presence, I remember when we had Eyeshield 21 Anime broadcasted in our national TV and we had the closest thing to American Football boom here in Indonesia (Hell, I and my schoolmates played some kind of bare(st)-bone American Football before the teacher stopped us for messing with the school infrastructure). Of course, the biggest challenge of spreading American Football presence worldwide is the accessibility. Sports that can be easily played in an empty lot are more popular here (like Associate Football/Futsal and Badminton). This is coming from someone who watch more American Football more than any other sports thanks to UA-camrs like you.
You can play football in an empty lot. We played flag football as kids.
I played American Football in Brasil, we where the 2nd or thrid marked of consumers of the league, we have a league who is trying to get more professional, if the league invest right now in infrastructure (Since every dolar cost about 5 reais) and development this could help the growth, and also a game played in Brasil , Maracanã in Rio, ou Allianz Arena in São Paulo, they will be sould out, no doubt about that.
I mean the NFL is pretty much as popular as hockey in canada and way bigger than hockey where I live in canada so they’re successfully internationally already
You are drunk nfl is not even ahead of baseball or basketball let alone our king hockey
Damn i wish u posted more bro
I think the NFL Academy deserves a mention in this vid but nevertheless a good video STE
Everybody knows the nfl has international appeal… in Canada the 51st state, even if they have their own version a lot of Canadians follow nfl football
Damn, that’s six times what the UEFA Champions League makes, and it includes buisness with almost every nation
Hope to see teams around the world one day.
I'll say this whilst generally more people here in Europe keep up with Basketball than American Football, I can't emphasise *enough* how much easier it is to watch NFL games.
I live in the UK the the Sunday games start at 6pm 9:15pm and 1:20am and Monday/Thursday games also at 1:20am
Aside from Sunday games you're lucky in the UK if a NBA game starts at 11pm and the UK timezone wise is even the best placed in Europe (aside from Iceland) but for sure the game profile is growing here more people are definitely watching and there more coverage now than its ever been
Also as Rugby is popular here there's some interchangeable aspect of Rugby and American Football and I think the growth can be sustainable plus once people get past the part that you don't really play the game with your foot it's genuinely an interesting game to watch
I like how they don't even try marketing to the French
Personally, the Rams in Australia is a dream come true for me. And if they played a game against the Cowboys who my dad follows I am selling a lung just to go to it.
What I saw in this video is Georgia is on the rise. Damn look at that year over year!
I live in Australia and have been an nfl/broncos fan since 2010! what got me started is from 2010-2015 my job had a 4 day week (every monday off) and for us NFL is played early monday morning. I know Australia is a small market but until people have a way to watch live games at a different time it will just be a handful of us!
You are literally the best fucking football channel on the platform
Cool fact the Frankfurt Galaxy where revived in 2017 play games in Europe American Football League
I've spent nearly 46 years in the USA, as an immigrant, and I STILL can't watch a complete NFL game because, quite frankly, too many interruptions, pauses, substitutions, time-outs and commercial breaks. Rugby will dominate the NFL.
If the NFL wants to expand internationally then they should take some of those profits and put them into founding high school and college level leagues in other countries
That’s how you expand
The French music over the break dancing killed me 🤣💀
Maybe they should put a game in Brazil and China to grow its popularity instead of just Europe and North America
Football has become a year-round event, so having various leagues pop-up across the globe and participate in a world championship like the Champions League is something the NFL should most definitely establish in the next 20 years or so.
You'd be surprised at how much lucrative influence the sport would draw for the impoverished communities, especially across Africa
Football is very expensive. But what they could do is have flag football leagues which is really cheap to play and top african colleges could have their own college programs funded by the nfl. This is probably only feasible in like Nigeria, South Africa, and maybe Sierra Leone, or in the EAF area with Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan, etc. I feel Nigeria and the EAF area are the most plausible by far though.
If you are going to do this change the name of the league to NGL because it’s Gridiron NOT football, what we stupidly call soccer is real Football, where you literally use your feet 95% of the time and you don’t with this sport.